Sr. Applied Scientist, Advertising

Sr. Applied Scientist, Amazon Advertising

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Description

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers.

Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!

As a Senior Applied Scientist on this team, you will:

• Be the technical leader in Machine Learning; lead efforts within this team and across other teams.
• Perform hands‑on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience.
• Drive end‑to‑end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, and complexity.
• Build machine learning models, perform proof‑of‑concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in product ionizing your ML models.
• Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large‑scale data analysis, machine‑learning model development, model validation, and serving.
• Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.
• Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.

Why you will love this opportunity

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world‑class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long‑term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world‑class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun‑loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit— with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.

Impact and Career Growth

You will invent new experiences and influence customer‑facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest‑growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long‑term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers’ needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams.

This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding.

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Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
• PhD or Master’s degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related languages
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit‑learn, Spark MLlib, MxNet, Tensor Flow, Num Py, Sci Py, etc.
• Experience with large‑scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark, etc.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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